Nearly 200 sailors serving on UK's nuclear submarines caught doing hard drugs

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The sailors have tested positive for several illegal substances including ecstasy, cocaine and cannabis, it has been revealed.

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blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Out of the 175 sailors who tested positive in the random testing, 52 of them were serving on as submarine at the time.

Not quite what the headline states

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- PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Nor are ecstasy and cannabis hard drugs
  
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  - blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It’s cos MDMA is class A so that’s a hard drug in their sensational-eyes
    
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NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Economy’s gotten so bad that the soldiers are forced to bring their own drugs these days instead of being handed them in ration packs.

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hobata@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It was only rum, sodomy, and the lash once.

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CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Relax! It’s recreational pharmaceuticles on a nuclear powered, nuclear armed strategic submarine. What’s the worse that can happen?

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